The Gender of Things

How Epistemic and Technological Objects Become Gendered

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Contributor(s)
Rentetzi, Maria (editor)
Language
English
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Abstract
Gender studies; feminist new materialism; gendered objects; history of science; material culture; technoscience
URI
https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/122304
Keywords
Gender studies; feminist new materialism; gendered objects; history of science;material culture; technoscience
ISBN
9781032459097, 9781032459127, 9781003379225
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publisher website
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/
Publication date and place
2024
Imprint
Routledge

Chapters in this book

  • Chapter Introduction
    Granadino, Alan; Nygård, Stefan; Stadius, Peter (2022)
    "With a combined focus on social democrats in Northern and Southern Europe, this book crucially broadens our understanding of the transformation of European social democracy from the mid-1970s to the early-1990s. In doing ...
  • Chapter 4 Godofredo and Françoise Travel Around the World
    Rentetzi , Maria (2024)
    This chapter focuses on Françoise, a dummy figure of the upper part of the female human body used for calibrating radiation detectors in laboratories around the world. From spring 1962 to the end of 1965, Godofredo Gómez ...
  • Chapter Introduction
    Rentetzi , Maria (2024)
    Nature was called on to justify what was based on social stereotypes and gender preconceptions ever since the Cold War. Gender discrimination in the US space programme indeed has a long history. Imaging phantoms simulating ...

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